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Friday, April 17, 2015

iZombie: Flight of the Living Dead

Is this creepy? I’m trying really hard to not seem creepy.

This week’s episode opens on a plane as a bunch of high-risk junkies
get blitzed before doing something stupid and testing the validity of
the theory of gravity. I’m not sure if we were supposed to be cheering
for the ground to win this fight, but I was. The scene jump cuts to a
skydiver impaled through a tree, her chute dangling limply to the side.

Liv and Ravi are on scene having a delightful conversation about
nibbling brains on kebabs while a horde of police officers stand a
couple dozen feet away. Either cops are so jaded that the idea of two
morgue docs talking about eating brains from the fresh corpse doesn’t
phase them, or they’re all planning on having a nosh later
(Foreshadowing!).

Mid gallows humor, Liv gets a call from a pretty but plotless girl.
It turns out that the satay-ed skydiver corpse used to be in Liv’s
sorority. This is the first time the case of the week is tied to the
main character but sadly, it’s not a very exciting one. Despite Liv
getting all, “I have to eat this brain because of finding the real
killer and getting vengeance!” Holly (our ex-adrenaline junkie) seemed
more like a Facebook friend at best. Later, at her wake/memorial
service, aside from Liv’s ex-fiance (who must show up anywhere he’s
invited, kinda like a polite vampire) and her roommate, no one seemed to
have a clue that Liv knew Holly.

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